Actor Yogita Bihani calls herself “very new to the industry” however, the 27-year-old, who performs one of many central characters in The Kerala Story, has been beneath the limelight ever for the reason that movie launched. The actor admits that although she had readability in her ideas about why she took up the undertaking, nonetheless did really feel anxious forward of its launch.
“In this film, we’re talking about terrorist outfit ISIS. and we wanted women to be safe of this organisation, not any religion. When I took up the project, I had the clarity about what we are showing through the film, and how we want to keep women of all religion safe. But, before the release of the film, when there was so much going on (call for bans and people objecting to its intentions), I was a little anxious about what will happen,” confesses Bihani.
But what reinstated her confidence was the realisation that emotions like these are half and parcel of her line of labor. “I told myself that I am part of an industry where you put your project out before crores of people. And everybody will have their own point of view. Everybody looks at things differently and they have different opinions. So, you cannot do anything about it,” she shares.
In one in all its teasers, the makers of The Kerala Story claimed that 32,000 girls had been transformed [to Islam], and plenty of compelled to hitch a terrorist outfit. But after an ensuing uproar, the determine was modified from 32,000 to a few. When requested what she has to say concerning the alleged misrepresentation of the info, Bihani, whose character within the movie can also be seen speaking about the identical figures and arguing about girls being forcefully transformed, says: “I think that (numbers) is for makers and directors to look at. This is something the script comes with. It’s the packaging of the film — that’s how it’s presented. As an actor, you submit yourself to the script and that’s what I did.”
On the controversy across the movie and the purported legitimacy or the shortage of it — there isn’t a solution to be completely sure, feels the 27-year-old. “We have not been to that place, we have not seen that happening. So I think it is, again, a personal call for every creator and director or producer as to where they want to take their film and it is for them to decide. Even if I comment on anything like this, it wouldn’t matter. These guys know what they’re doing or how they want to take it ahead,” she tells us.
The Vikram Vedha actor additionally talks about her character within the movie and the way it was fairly a difficult one. Sharing how she needed to put in a variety of effort and arduous work to get it proper, she says, “For me, it was more about understanding where these characters are coming from and what is happening to them. So for me, it was about watching shows which were related to this, like Caliphate. I also read these books again like the Princess of Saudi Arabia and watched interviews of Malala Yousufzai. This is what went behind my research for this character. Because most of the part, where you live like a college girl is fine. But when you have to start fighting for the subject, then you need to be able to understand, imagine what the girls are going through. So with these books, series and movies, I could understand what I’m fighting for. I had the picture to it,” she ends.
Source: www.hindustantimes.com